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Show THE CITIZEN 4 financial statistics, especially relating to the railroads, coal operators and now the oil interests, that it costs the government, or rather the taxpayers, millions of dollars. So far, these investigations have resulted in price raising and the whitewash brush. The dear public pays for it all. Therefore, any bloc or clique at Washington which attempts to thwart tax reduction should be carefully watched by the people and the offenders should be reduced to private life as soon as possible. The war has been a great excuse for tax raising, price fixing and raising and it appears that those who have it in their power to raise prices have entirely forgotten that the war has been over for five years. It is sure hard to let go, but as Hiram Johnson says, the people are going to be heard this year at the coming election. Not only the present scandal must be cleaned up at but the officials must resort to a general housecleaning out the rubbish. Lobby interests at Washington should receive somm now. Big interests employ the smartest attorneys of the cS the purpose of securing favorable legislation, regardless legislation is detrimental to the people. Let us elect a couf? will repeal all the radical laws and work for the peoplepresent time, the government is supporting the people, f verse all this" and make the people support the governing 9 said that the proportion is something like one out of evt 1 people who are working directly or indirectly for the go city, county, state and national. We must get away from - us BOOSTING PRICES. The wheat growers of the United States will endeavor to force legislation which will take care of prices and future crops. Just how they expect to do this, nobody seems to know. Those who are pushing the scheme would like to see wheat go to $2 in this country and then take the surplus and sell it to foreigns for probably 30 cents a bushel. What a brilliant idea. Somebody must have had a dream. This looks like foreign propaganda. It is about time that Washington was waking up and refused to consider future radical legislation. However, the sugar trust works on this plan. People who live in the vicinity of the factories are compelled to pay the freight on sugar sent to the outside. There is a big surplus of sugar produced in Utah, but the people here pay the top price for sugar, about a dollar more a sack than the people living on each side of us. This sugar sent to the outside must meet the lower prices. Why not give the people here the advantage of the lower prices? Now is the time for sugar prices to raise ; the harvest is over with a big crop on hand. John Harrington once said: Treason doth never prosper; whats the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. It is indeed time to form a new combination to carry on the work of prohibition. Even the ministers of the gospel have trouble with their liberty. political officials. To receive a favor is to sell your EXPERTS IN BUSINESS. William G. McAdoo was employed by the Doheny oil interests to look after the Mexican property. Was McAdoo employed because of his unusual brilliant mind, or because the Doheny interests thought that a big politician would be able to draw the United States government into the mess in case of trouble? If there is not a housecleaning at Washington now, God help the nation. Every person connected in any grafting ought to be kicked out, regardless of politics. We find prominent Republicans and prominent Democrats drawn into this oil maelstrom. The money flowed so freely that it was hard to turn it down, and evidently there was none turned down. According to press reports, Creel, Democratic publicity agent, was the cheapest guy in the bunch, he being satisfied, it is said, with something like $5,000. Senator Fall, Republican, was one of the big fellows, and according to reports, the money rolled into his socks by the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The big question with the people now is, Who and how many of our Washington politicians for the past decade are in on the pot, and should they be allowed to investigate themselves? What about the coal investigation? What about the railroad investigation? Were big fees received by some influential politicians in order that the present high coal and freight prices might be hung over the heads of the people? Many questions are being asked these days, and the people are praying for a Teddy Roosevelt. tax reduction and less political jobs. fn iar MURDER INCREASING. ha of Murder is on the increase. People are shot upon tk a T in one a If his with ventures half dollar out pretext. pock.m is in danger. A majority of the thugs are young men, are closed and we have prohibit juvenile class. has happened to the people to bring on this crime wave? it among the rich and we have it among the poor. have more of it than the rest of the world combined. Ever since the inauguration of juvenile courts thereim, a tendency towards leniency, with reprimand as a controDy t to endeavor to turn the criminally inclined youth from hij course. Ordinary infractions of the law by youths of tendtjns condoned with a reprimand and requirement to report or something of the sort. We cant put him in prison young, and such an appeal invariably strikes a tender 0f average person, but what does it lead to? Our indeterminate prison sentence, our pardon board-- . is deal a are towards courts, fostering juvenile doing great PP crime wave, and all because those in charge are trying: the criminal and show him compassion instead of harsh pd . . ment. The criminal does not, and will not, appreciate kindfe.Wj is him. It only makes crime easier for him the next timeK Ids knows that the powers that be feel sorry for him. We e is to go to bat with the criminals or move out of the country IW it over to them. We cannot live together, and the quicker: ation comes, the better it will be for all concerned. The-saloon- s onc-a- s: , DCS GAS THE PUBLIC. no ca The law of supply and demand is the flag unfurled to' behind which many corporations hide, but no one can undeii' at this time of the year there should be such an umvarn in the price, of gasoline. In this city the poorest grade has been boosted to 26 cents per gallon. But then when we turn our attention towards Wastayo read of the huge fortunes paid to public officials, we that the cost can be kept as low as it is. It is apparent of dollars has been paid for the acquisition and protection terests, and the dear public is made to pay for it all. M. C( and organization of the companies are so perfect that tbrin(j dollars in retaining fees to influential politicians are easily: the public. The preliminary work as a rule is performed by. j press. The first knockout blow is generally delivered w scarehead flash announcing that the production is g ttinfy0 istefi prepares the public for the homeopathic doses admii subsequent increased price. The cost of production of tijje minor or negligent quantity. It is the cost of political which takes the real money, and what is left is sold t r thf y. 1 1 a cost to cover all. Follow the investigation which is now going on it ;s and you will learn something in price fixing, or rather t magnates must get more for their oil. ; |